You are mistaken about the porting of the Mac Client. Bioware are doing it in house and it is as near to release as the Linux client. They showed some footage of it running on demo machines at MWSF.
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/movies.html
It was only the Mac Toolset that got sent to a porting house (supposedly The Omni Group). But the original application was created in Borland's RAD environment and TOG estimated a year to port it.
Macsoft, Bioware's publisher for the Mac version, said this was longer than they were prepared to invest in a port of the toolset and canned it.
Lots of drama and politics involved. Very disappointing.
If you are a Mac user and want to read more check out Bioware's Mac updates page:
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You are mistaken about the porting of the Mac Client. Bioware are doing it in house and it is as near to release as the Linux client. They showed some footage of it running on demo machines at MWSF.
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/movies.html
It was only the Mac Toolset that got sent to a porting house (supposedly The Omni Group). But the original application was created in Borland's RAD environment and TOG estimated a year to port it.
Macsoft, Bioware's publisher for the Mac version, said this was longer than they were prepared to invest in a port of the toolset and canned it.
Lots of drama and politics involved. Very disappointing.
If you are a Mac user and want to read more check out Bioware's Mac updates page:
http://nwn.bioware.com/about/macversion.html